Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Harvey Weinstein’s extradition from New York to Los Angeles delayed by pandemic
breakingnews.ieHarvey Weinstein’s extradition to Los Angeles has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, prosecutors have said. The disgraced former Hollywood film producer was convicted of rape in February and is serving a 23-year prison sentence in New York.
Weinstein, once one of the most powerful and feared men in the film industry, has also been charged with sexually assaulting three women in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles County district attorney launched the extradition process to take him to California in March, however the pandemic has now delayed proceedings.
A district attorney spokesman said: “The virus has delayed the processing of the extradition paperwork. There is no time estimate on when he will appear in a Los Angeles courtroom.” Weinste
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